Meanings
verblick up (third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)
present singular third person licks up · participle present licking up · participle past licked up · past licked up
- transitiveTo consume something by first licking it from a surface.
There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast
1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 舔光, 添完
- 舔光 (tiǎnguāng)consume by licking
- 添完 (tiǎnwán)consume by licking
Finnish nuolla
- nuollaconsume by licking
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lick up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lick%20up.
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